NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 819

HOUSE BILL 964

AN ACT PERTAINING TO THE IMPOUNDING OF DOGS IN BEAUFORT COUNTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Whenever any dog in Beaufort County shall bite any person, or shall be suspected of biting any person, or shall be confined in the dog pound of Beaufort County for any reason, before such dog shall be released to its owner, the owner shall pay all charges in connection with the impounding of such dog, and, if the owner after five days notice shall fail to pay such charges and call for and pick up the dog so impounded, it shall be the duty of the dog warden to place the dog with some other person or destroy the dog in the manner provided by law.

Sec. 2. A letter addressed to the last known address of the owner shall be deemed notice.

Sec. 3. If the owner of the dog is unknown, and the dog remains unclaimed for five days, the dog warden shall place the dog with some other person or destroy the dog in the manner provided by law.

Sec. 4. Neither Beaufort County nor the dog warden or any person acting under him shall be liable for any damages for the destruction of any dog destroyed under this Act.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of June, 1961.